The Eastern Cape government said that it would be allocating R409 million towards Covid-19 containment and mitigation in its close to collapse health sector.
Cape Town - The Eastern Cape government said on Wednesday that it would be allocating R409 million towards Covid-19 containment and mitigation in its close to collapse health sectorThe Eastern Cape's health care sector is fraught with problems, with hospitals in dire straits due to mismanagement and corruption. The province also has a severe shortage of healthcare workers, with high numbers of overstretched health staff having contracted the virus, the majority of them nurses.
The premier said the province needed R4.1 billion, and that R2.2 billion of the required funds had already been allocated to health infrastructure. As of Tuesday, the national health department recorded 53, 959 cases of Covid-19 in the province, with 34,706 recoveries. The virus-related fatality rate presently sits at 726.
Of those that tested positive, 34% were nurses, 2.2% were doctors, while 57% were employed in other categories of the sector. PPE stocks were currently at one to two weeks surplus, he said. Inter-facility transfers of PPE was being "proactively and electronically monitored and managed."
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